1621. Before Saks, hours before Europe’s Arnault vacuumed up 57th and Fifth’s three corners — Tiffany, Vuitton, Bulgari — and slavering to inhale Bergdorf’s — the Dutch West India Company got granted rights to sell the first US shmattas.

1626, before divorce lawyers got so rich, the new area’s new governor, Peter Minuit, sailed in with the old wives, girlfriends and any hookers not too tired from the trip.

A sharp trader from Holland, Minuit did not go Dutch. He paid — straight out — the equivalent of $24 for all Manhattan. Today it costs more to just get crosstown.

Our land — all forest — took $200. The population was Germans, Dutch, English — whoever had not yet been forced to see the latest version of........

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